by admin | Apr 2, 2019 | News
An open evening with cheese and wine is to be held at Penrith Playhouse on Saturday, 6th April, from 7pm. As part of an on-going drive to increase awareness of the fantastic community theatre facility in the town’s Auction Mart Lane, behind Morrisons, the open...
by admin | Jan 27, 2019 | Castings, News
This summer Penrith Players is staging ‘Our Country’s Good’ by Timberlake Wertenbaker, from June 6th-8th, a play considered to be a modern classic and widely taught in A Level theatre studies. The play is based on a true story about a group of...
by admin | Jan 6, 2019 | News, Play Reading Evenings
Come and join us in the Theatre Bar at 7pm onwards on Tuesday January 22nd for a play reading and social evening, based round a reading of “It All Started In Vegas” by The Watermillock Players’ writer/director Owen Lightburn. Two estranged sisters:...
by admin | Dec 3, 2018 | Castings, News
January 15th, 7.30 ‘QUARTET’ by Ronald Harwood, is a comedy about four opera singers who end up in a retirement home for musicians in leafy Kent. It succeeds in being witty, scabrous, and poignant all at the same time. It is a great opportunity for older...
by admin | Nov 22, 2018 | Castings, News
December 10th, 7.30 Tiny Beautiful Things is a relatively short (60 page) ensemble piece for four players, with all actors on stage all the time. Sugar is a writer and mother in her 40’s, a woman who’s had a hard, messy life, but whose suffering has given her a...
by admin | Sep 21, 2018 | News
Ever wondered how all those effects come together during a play? Sometimes fancy being in that little “magic” box at the back of the auditorium making it all happen? Would you like to join a growing team that contributes hugely to our plays? All members...
